The Races of Europe

Description:

Scarce. At the time of publication Carlton Stevens Coon (1904-1981) was Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. A review of this work published in Nature 1939 Vol 144, pp767–768 states ‘In 1899 W. Z. Ripley produced his classic work on “Races of Europe” and the appearance of a book prepared at his suggestion to bring matters up to date is of considerable importance, especially in these days when race-study is suffering so severely from political perversions’. His theories on race were controversial in his day and are now viewed as pseudoscientific by anthologists..

Condition

8vo, orig. cloth, spine worn. Ex-lib., withdrawn from an institutional library. Fair.